Every year on April 1, businesses submit applications on behalf of their foreign workers for temporary employment visas. If the number of applications to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services exceeds the 85,000 quota within the first week, visas are granted through a lottery system. Last year, there were a total of 515,605 Labor Condition…
For the third year in a row, the entire year’s allocation of H-1B visas for skilled workers were snapped up by employers within a week of being made available. Hopefuls who missed the window will now have to test their odds in a lottery, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Congress set the cap for H-1B visas…
Instagram almost didn’t happen, and the U.S.’s convoluted immigration system would have been to blame. Before Mike Krieger created the wildly popular photo-sharing app with business partner Kevin Systrom, he was living in Silicon Valley on a temporary work visa. If not for some lucky breaks navigating the country’s immigration process, our world of artfully filtered, boxy…
Yesterday marked the close of the five-day filing period when U.S. companies could apply for H-1B visas to bring high-skilled workers from around the world to work here next year. The annual cap was exceeded in those few days, and a lottery will be held to determine which workers will be admitted. This is one…
advertisement Often discussed immigration reform will most likely be a long time coming, but several county residents are taking matters into their own hands, lobbying Congress to act now to speed up the waiting time for green cards. Germantown resident Shyam Sriram is one of them. He is vice president of the Maryland Chapter of…
The spouses of some immigrant tech workers, whose visas haven’t allowed them to work in the U.S., may soon be able to apply for work permits under an executive order on immigration. “I’m really excited,’ said one, who hasn’t worked since moving here from India eight years ago. To ready herself for a job hunt,…